Abstract
This document summarizes the searches for heavy resonances decaying to massive bosons at the TeV mass scale. Results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity up to about 20 inverse femtobarns recorded in proton-proton collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The bosons coming from the resonance decay can be W, Z, or the standard model Higgs. Several final states are considered: fully leptonic, leptons plus jets, and fully hadronic final sates. Techniques aiming at identifying jet substructures are used to analyze signal events in which the hadronization products from the decay of highly boosted W or Z bosons are contained within a single reconstructed jet. No significant excess above the standard model prediction is observed in data. Upper limits on the production of diboson resonances are set as a function of the resonance mass and width. These searches provide the most stringent direct limits to date on the production of these hypothesized TeV-scale resonances.
Highlights
One century of experimental measurements and progress in theoretical physics led to an extremely compact and elegant theory of fundamental interactions between elementary particles, the standard model (SM)
Results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity up to about 20 inver√se femtobarns recorded in proton-proton collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS [1] and CMS [2] detectors at the CERN Large Hadronc Collider (LHC)
We have presented the status of searches for heavy resonances at the TeV scale that decay to a pair of SM bosons, focusing on the HH and VV final states
Summary
One century of experimental measurements and progress in theoretical physics led to an extremely compact and elegant theory of fundamental interactions between elementary particles, the standard model (SM). Colliding hadrons at the highest reachable energy to possibly create and study these new massive states has been a successful experimental approach in particle physics during the last 50 years. This document presents searches for heavy resonances decaying to SM bosons. F. Santanastasio / Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings 273–275 (2016) 649–655 marises the results of searches for resonances decaying to pairs of V bosons (where V indicates either W or Z). Results of searches for heavy resonances decaying to γγ [14], Wγ/Zγ [15], and HH/ZH in the multileptons and photons [16] final states are discussed in more details in other proceedings of this conference
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